As a top favorite, Speer throwing ace Julian Weber competed in Tokyo at the World Athletics Championships. And then that: infection. Fifth place. The medal dream burst again. ARD expert Frank Busemann suffers.
Now I have been able to announce good news for the last few days and we have all been a bit in a party mood. She twitches, she lives, she trembles (almost again), the German athletics. It was just fun to be there. To see athletes who deliver absolute and personal best and are fit at the highlight of the season.
The half -time balance was so different than the tendency of recent years suggested. 80 athletes in a team are a lot, not always everything works, but here in Japan you can feel a very reasonable spirit.
Fever and panic spread
And then our number one climbed into the round of Tokyo. The world’s best Julian Weber. The almost unbeaten top favorite. Once he “lost” this season. Was second. He wanted and had to win this global medal. It was so to speak, so to speak, pessimists may have the variation of the medal color, optimists calculated with gold – until the ultimate final boss of every competitive athlete appeared.
Maybe 100 nanometers tall, captured somewhere, without the sender, but large in effect. Fever spread. The panic even more.
Competitive athletes are race horses, grown, massive and stable in the stature and constitution, but powerless against a flu infection. You can even hear fleas quickly, but the temperature is easy to read, that’s not a feeling, no men’s cold, that’s a fact. In this case you will see the year in front of your inner eye. A sporting approach experience. Suddenly everything seems to be over.
It is howling, Weber was in the form of his life and a few days before the World Championships he realizes that something is wrong. This is the super gau of an athlete.
Fight for optimism – and with the body
It should happen here in Tokyo. In qualification, he showed that despite everything, he can be expected. And then optimism has to spread. Not so easy, the body screams. But! “No, lick me”. “Yes,” screams in a different angle of the system, “yes! Throw with a bad throw so far, the way is right. Everything will be fine! Everything will be fine! Everything will be fine!” Painting positive synapses in the brain every staccatot.
But a few hours later the final. A weakened body regenerates like a weakened body. Bad. Competitive sport is exhausting. Everyone who has struggled with a fever takes a few days for him to go back to work. And Weber wanted to win.
Maybe someone may say that he is afraid of big finals. In the last five (!) Big decisions in front of Tokyo, he took four to six places. You might think. But an exhausted body does not throw well. And then nuances don’t work properly.
However, small things in competitive sports create disproportionate results. Sometimes upwards – and top athletes like Weber can call up with an incredible consistency, so we ask it to be a great art. But also down.
Performance is a fragile structure
So he becomes fifth. With 86.11 meters. This is not a big deviation down, but is not enough for a medal. For the sixth time in the second half of the top 6.
It doesn’t exist, this subjunctive. Would have had. Now it is so. It didn’t work. Once again. And you can see again how difficult it is to win a medal. Not only does the performance in physique and psyche have to be called up, you also have to turn around everything that could endanger performance. A fragile structure. That’s why profits are so horny and extraordinary.